Ashley Maria - Yours Truly

Yours Truly

Achieving the dream!

**Introducing Ashley Maria**
Skills and Relevant Experience
SKILLS	Avid, Final Cut Pro, Quantel Editing System, MS Office application, Sony EX-1 HD
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE	Mark Burnett Productions (Summer 09) Casting Assistant, Assistant to the Executive Producer for MTV's Bully Beatdown reality TV show.
	Zemeckis Equipment Center (Spring 09 - Present) - Check out, clean, care for student film equipment
	truTV Reality TV Show (Fall 08) - Production Assistant for Tough Jobs. While wearing a bullet proof vest I drove crew to real-time film shoots of property seizure, responsible for making sure release forms were signed.
	EditOne Media (Summer 06 – Fall 08) - Production Coordinator (August 08 – December 08) Produced commercials, documentaries and corporate informational videos. - Intern (As needed Summer 06 – Summer 08) Edited demos and documentaries. Examples: part of the on-site production team for Bloomberg Television and Semi-Conductor Research Corporation.
	Current Television Intern (Fall 07 – Spring 08) - Student Executive Producer / Student Outreach Representative for Current.com and Current TV. Produced short form documentaries called “pods” for Current TV Network. Awarded Best Video Diary for Shot Dead at UNC pod.
	UNC Student Television Crew Member (Fall 04 – Spring 08) - Producer, director, editor, actor and camera crew for General College; a tongue-in-cheek soap opera shown monthly on UNCs Student Television (STV). Awarded STV ‘Stevies Award’ for Best Student Director and Best Show. Host, writer and director for Bluelite District comedy show shown monthly on STV.
	Carolina Comedy Festival Committee (Fall 05 – Spring 08) - Liaison with national comedians to coordinate their trip to UNC. Organized seminars and classes with the writers and producers of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live, and The Office.
	ESPN Intern (Summer 07) - Proud of the fact that I was 1 of 123 Interns chosen from over 10,000 applicants. Produced online and Video-on-Demand media for ESPN shows such as Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn segments for the half hour show airing on ESPN2. Interviewed red carpet premiere attendees for ESPN’s Bronx is Burning television show; a 3-minute highlight film of the interviews was shown online on the ESPN website. Attended seminars to learn about different aspects of the ESPN company.
	Stage Manager for ESPN / Kwokman Productions (Fall 06 - Fall 07) -Assisted on-air talent and Phil Dean to produce live ESPN shows of College football games.
	Full Frame Film Festival Fellows Program (Spring 05, 06, 07, 08) - Awarded Fellow; the only freshman student from UNC Chapel Hill accepted. Interacted with and learned from documentary filmmakers from around the world. Interviewed about my experience by Reel Carolina magazine; article printed June 2005.
	Assistant Director for UNC Student Films (Spring 07) White Lies, Open Ends